Re: FLASH: Vecta 3D - shaded render problems

[Jack Beslanwitch]

I purchased Vecta3D as well. Somewhere in either their web site or in the 

release notes they indicated that there was a problem with shaded render 

not importing correctly into Flash. Vecta indicated that they were aware of 

the problem and would be taking care of the problem in the next update. 

Given how long it has taken them to finally release the stand alone 

version, I would not hold my breath. But at least they were up front with 

the difficulty from the outset.


At 08:42 AM 3/30/2000 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi all,

>

>I've purchased the Vecta3D standalone version, but i've discovered some 

>problems with the shaded render option:

>When i save an animation that's shaded, it doesn't import right in Flash 

>4. The .swf that Vecta3D generates looks fine, but once imported in Flash 

>4, faces of the object seem to be missing ( you can see an example of this 

>at http://www.katdesign.be/interface/vecta3d/testexport.swf ). Rendering 

>the object in wireframe works perfectly, it's just the shaded colour fills 

>that seem to cause trouble with importing them in Flash. The 3D object i 

>used is a .3ds file exported from 3D Studio Max 2. Anyone have similar 

>troubles or know what this could be? Not being able to use shaded objects 

>casts a big shadow on the usability of Vecta3D, imho.

>

>P.S. I had the same probs on both a PII 233 with 64MB of RAM and on an 

>Athlon K7-650 with 128MB of RAM, so i guess it's not a system issue.

>

>

>Please save me from hand-tracing hundreds of frames! ;-)

>

>--

>

Toon Van de Putte - toonkatdesign [dot] be - http://www.katdesign.be

Jack Beslanwitch

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